ok i just went to whiterun and suddenly an ancient dragon attacked whiterun and killed a few key people in the town before everyone chased him out to the gate and killed him.

but the people who were killed were kinda important for instance the blacksmith for the compainions was killed and a few others. but mainly im wondering is their anyone who will take over the blacksmith at the skyforge because he sales alot of stuff and his body has just been laying in the middle of town. and poke at him, but no one says anything about him. and idk if i have any autosaves before the dragon attacked.

I thought dragons couldn't attack separate cells from the game world? Just the outside towns with no walls or anything?

i thought that also but i was wrong. i am level 45 in game and i just left markarath after getting the mace from the deadric prince, and killing a few gaurds for trying to frame me, and i fast traveled to whiterun. and less that a minute after going there the ancient dragon attacked and it stayed on a tall building for a while so it took forever for it to land but that was only after it went outside the gate. but by the time it died, the greymane forger died, the guy in the begining of whiterun who asked me to retrive his family sword died, and and old battle born died, and all of their bodies are still there after 3 days.

I thought dragons couldn't attack separate cells from the game world? Just the outside towns with no walls or anything?

Nope they can attack inside of walled cities as well, as you can imagine, damage control for such circumstances is absolute hell.

I've had dragons attack me inside of Windhelm three times and they never seem to focus on you when they do it, only on the NPCs.

yeah and i was not able to reload to a past save.

can anyone tell me where i can get the shout to make it so dragons will stop flying because when that dragon attacked it was in the middle of the city on the hall of the dead and my bow and arrows didnt even get his attention.

I thought dragons couldn't attack separate cells from the game world? Just the outside towns with no walls or anything?

Nope they can attack inside of walled cities as well, as you can imagine, damage control for such circumstances is absolute hell.

I've had dragons attack me inside of Windhelm three times and they never seem to focus on you when they do it, only on the NPCs.

yeah and i was not able to reload to a past save.

can anyone tell me where i can get the shout to make it so dragons will stop flying because when that dragon attacked it was in the middle of the city on the hall of the dead and my bow and arrows didnt even get his attention.

You get dragonrend at the end of the main story. Forces dragons to land and you can spam the shout pretty much all the time as it has an extremely low cooldown time.

I thought main characters couldn't be killed? That's always been the case when I've gone on raging spree's out of boredom.

Essential Characters tend to only be connected to major questlines, like the main one or the civil war. That doesn't stop dragons from killing people connected to the massive amounts of side-quests in the game, or just killing off any outdoor merchants or other NPCs en masse.

I thought main characters couldn't be killed? That's always been the case when I've gone on raging spree's out of boredom.

Essential Characters tend to only be connected to major questlines, like the main one or the civil war. That doesn't stop dragons from killing people connected to the massive amounts of side-quests in the game, or just killing off any outdoor merchants or other NPCs en masse.

Ahh I understand now. I thought every person connected to completing a quest had immunity to death.Better make sure I don't save after my killing spree's, then. Not that I do anyway..

You think thats bad a dragon attacked me inside my house it couldent get me and i couldent get it but its massive head was sat right across the room and my wife was just sat there saying how are you dear